science / science - 6 years ago
Some researchers say the geo-engineering technique known as stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) could limit rising temperatures that are causing climate change. Total costs to launch a hypothetical SAI effort 15 years from now would be $3.5 billion, scientists at Harvard University said in a repo...
science / science - 6 years ago
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Jose Bautista has a new namesake buzzing around.
science / science - 6 years ago
The Government's strategy to eradicate TB in cattle is a contentious topic. The disease is extremely complicated and lots of people have different ideas on how to manage it. Professor of Zoonotic and Emerging Disease at the University of Nottingham, Malcolm Bennett, helps Adam Rutherford understand...
science / science - 6 years ago
Artificial intelligence has come a long way in the past decade or so, but one of the scariest portrayals of how AI could ultimate doom us was created way back in the late 1960s. HAL-9000, the nefarious AI from 2001: A Space Odyssey, saw human life as expendable in the shadow of its mission objective...
science / science - 6 years ago
While everyone is gathered around the table for a traditional — and terrestrial — Thanksgiving dinner, three people in particular are celebrating “turkey day” in space. This year, a German, a Russian, and an American are spending Thanksgiving some 260 miles above our planet, aboard the Internationa...
science / science - 6 years ago
The lumbering beast is the biggest of its kind found.
science / science - 6 years ago
It's hardly the first time tensions have boiled over
science / science - 6 years ago
Air travel is the safest, speediest way to get from one place to another, but you know what would make it even better? If planes didn't have to worry about pesky engines and messy fuel. I mean, if a plane could just go we'd all be better off, right? Well leave it to MIT to come up with a sol...
science / science - 6 years ago
Dinosaurs living more than 200 million years ago may have dominated the plains and grasslands of prehistoric Earth, but it turns out they still had some sizable competition. "The discovery of Lisowicia changes our ideas about the latest history of dicynodonts, mammal Triassic relatives.
science / science - 6 years ago
President Donald Trump is threatening to close the U.S. border with Mexico for an undisclosed period of time if his administration determines that its southern ally has lost “control” on its side.
science / science - 6 years ago
Just two weeks after a trio of asteroids swung by our planet on November 10 — one of them coming in closer than the moon, as the Inquisitr reported at the time — another space rock is due to zoom past Earth this weekend. Known as asteroid 2009 WB105, this particular space rock is considerably large...
science / science - 6 years ago
President Donald Trump has delivered a Thanksgiving message to American service members on duty around the world, telling them by telephone, “Your courage truly inspires us.”
science / science - 6 years ago
"Wherever you are in the country, I'm sure there is an organization like this one doing some really great work"
science / science - 6 years ago
Everybody loves a good meteor shower. There's nothing quite like a night spent out under the stars, learning a little bit more about your place in the cosmos. Everyone has that friend who's obsessed with space — I am that friend for many people — so maybe this holiday it's time to g...
science / science - 6 years ago
GENEVA (AP) — A top U.N. scientist on Thursday shrugged off an online quip from U.S. President Donald Trump that questioned global warming, saying a U.S. government report will show the "fundamental impacts of climate change on the U.S. continent."